SALISBURY, N.C. — Jennifer Jo Cobb had hoped that she would get closer to getting back the NASCAR transporter she believes is rightfully hers on Wednesday, but she was out of luck as the legal case against veteran NASCAR driver Mike Harmon and Cobb’s former business partner continues to wind its way through the court system.

Harmon and former Cobb business partner David Novak, who are accused of stealing Cobb’s hauler and seven race vehicles, had their probable cause hearing, which was scheduled for Wednesday in North Carolina District Court, continued to a later date.

Suspects charged with felonies in North Carolina are offered the opportunity for a probable cause hearing before the case is taken to the grand jury for indictment. Another probable cause hearing will be scheduled, although it is possible for the grand jury to meet on the charges before then.

The race vehicles were confiscated by police last month and returned to Cobb. She still does not have the hauler and racing equipment taken from her shop on May 11.

“It’s very unfortunate because I was looking forward to moving on,” Cobb said outside the courtroom in Salisbury, N.C. “It effects our entire team. … I just hope that the stuff will be returned and we can settle this whole thing amicably.”

Harmon faces two counts of larceny, two counts of breaking and entering and one count of obstruction of justice. Novak faces a count of larceny, one count of breaking and entering, one count of conspiring to commit larceny and one count of obstruction of justice.

Novak and Cobb, who had a romantic relationship, have been fighting in court for several months over the rights to the hauler and race vehicles.

Novak and Cobb never entered into a business agreement and are in a legal dispute in U.S. District Court in North Carolina over who owns the race equipment and how $237,618 from the team was spent.

Novak claims in his lawsuit that he spent more than $1 million on Cobb’s race team. A judge in February denied Novak’s request that he have control of the equipment and funds until it could be determined who is the rightful owner.

Harmon, speaking to reporters the day after his May 15 arrest on charges of taking the hauler, said that he had nothing to do with it.

“The truth has got to come out (on who stole it),” said Harmon, who had worked with Novak and Cobb as a racing coach for Cobb. “It’s not me.”

Cobb has not missed a race despite losing much of her equipment. Her father will race her truck later this month at Eldora Speedway.

“We do not plan on missing a race,” she said. “It will take an act of God to stop us.”